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Sendmail is the traditional MTA (message transfer agent), i.e. the traditional server program to send, transfer and deliver email. If your question is about sending mail in general, see the tag /email.

I want to send a mail to myself at the restart of a server. We use AWS, and a restart results in a changed internal 10.x.x.x address. This address has to be configured in Postgres and elsewhere, and ...

I'm on my BSD server and found my CPU usage at 98% for sendmail service.
When I check the log file, I noticed that spammer trying to use a relay. And my server is busy rejecting thousands of request.
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I was testing a script I had written in PHP when I realised that the emails it was meant to send out only went to local addresses. When I logged into WebMin I saw that the sendmail queue had a lot of ...

Background and Current Situation
I inherited a CentOS 5.7 box running Mailman 2.1.9 housing a series of legacy mailing lists. I've been working on moving these lists to other services like Exchange ...

I'm trying to send html formatted mail through sendmail function in oracle enterprise linux. I'm using following script and HTML format to send the mail. Which is working on ubuntu as expected. But on ...

I am not this question has been asked or not, I have postfix running with MySQL and recently i have created "support@example.com" alias email to multiple folks get email, just like distribution list.
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I need to allow users of my site to write emails to each other, without revealing their email addresses.
Here’s an example: user1@gmail.com sends an email to user2-alias@mydomain.com, user2@gmail.com ...

I have a CentOS 5.6 VM and have been able to send emails from my PHP application up until two days ago.
I am trying to find the SMTP server config details in my sendmail files somewhere, but I cannot ...

I'm trying to setup sendmail on FreeBSD to relay (outbound) through an Exchange server on the MSA port via SMTP-AUTH. The Exchange server is already successfully relaying for Java applications that ...

We have an HP-UX environment running HP-UX 11.31. The system was originally built to send email out through Sendmail. The server only sends email out, and the programmer has built a number of programs ...

How can we restrict all the incoming email traffic on to AIX LPAR? I can send emails from my root/user account to myself/my team. I would like to secure AIX LPAR. So for that, I do not want AIX LPAR ...

Can anyone help me please. I'm struggling with a issue since hours and can't seem to fix it.
When I execute this script via shell it works and I also get the right email output sent to me, but when ...

I have two servers that are synchronized with rsync, one is the failover server of the other, so they both have the same name.
Now root mails that are sent to my other account are all named from root ...

I know that you can change the from address in *nix mail by specifying command-line options. However, is there a way to set it globally, so that it is respected by forwarding?
I tried modifying the ...

On my Raspbian server, I wish to have local *nix mail delivered locally, as well as to an external address. /home/pi/.forward contains pi,foo@bar.com. I've run sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config with ...

I'm currently trying to figure out how to configure sendmail.postfix in Red Hat 6 to work with exchange 2010 relay. I've already configured our exchange server to allow our web server to relay. What ...

I have the following command below as part of a cronjob. When I run the command via cron or at the command line, I get Null message body; hope that's ok.
The contents of the email are empty but when ...

I am using the below listed code, which sends PDF attachment properly.
Attachment can be opened in desktop computer and Samsung mobile but same attachment cannot be opened in IPHONE IOS.
Below is my ...

I've just received loads of junk mail to a capture all mailbox. I've looked at the server logs and can see below. I'm no expert on sendmail, relaying is disabled but don't understand what they mean.
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Every day I get the output of sudo service --status-all emailed to me using crond. The server is a CentOS 6.5 web server which I use to host a few WordPress websites. Occasionally sendmail will change ...